In mild haemophilia, bleeding occurs only after moderately severe injury or after surgery. |
To treat haemophilia he can arrange for, and supervise, substitution therapy. |
Factor IX is used for treating sufferers of Christmas disease, which is a rarer and more serious form of haemophilia. |
He was born with a crippling inherited disease, arthritic haemophilia. |
Scientists have already reported that ten patients with severe haemophilia B have remained cured for a number of years. |
For that reason society offers testing for Down's syndrome, haemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and a range of other genetic conditions. |